Intel Takes Wraps Off 50-Core Supercomputing Coprocessor Plans

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Intel’s Larrabee GPU will finally go into commercial production next year, but not as a graphics processor. Instead, the part will make its debut in a 50-core incarnation fabbed on Intel’s 22nm and aimed squarely at one of the fastest growing and most important parts of NVIDIA’s business: math coprocessors for high-performance computing (HPC).

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